Pasteurization was not intended for milk by Pasture, however "industrial milk required pasteurization of its dirty and inferior product to make it safe enough to drink, and it was not used for medical benefits".

Date: 1/3/2009 4:05:15 AM ( 6 y ) ... viewed 1346 times

"The terrible things happening to non-corporate farming and pure food rest, oddly enough, on liberal assumptions about science and their trust flowing from those assumptions. ... The actual history of pasteurization had nothing to do with making milk from normal dairy farms safe. Pasteurization was a response to the urban industrialization of milk production. That is, pasteurization was only a response a very specific milk - industrial milk."